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  • Weather Restrictions: Elastomeric Sheet Membranes for Roofing

    Connect to your favourite weather forecaster and look for the following conditions:   Category: Roofing     Product: Elastomeric Sheet Membranes Temperature Limitations: Material and workmen are most flexible above +10 C (+50 F)  -- emergency repairs can be made down to -10 C (+14 F) Rain Lim...
  • Controlling Garage Pollution

    Pim from Etobicoke would like to install a door from his garage into the house. The danger of this is that it opens a path for pollutants from the car into the living space of the house. Recent CMHC/Health Canada research has shown that many more pollutants than we imagine come off of cars and fi...
  • Insulating the floor of a bedroom over a garage

    You might also call this entry “Insulating the ceiling of a garage under a bedroom”.  Any floor over a cold space will be cooler than a floor over a heated space, no matter how well you insulate it.  So bay window jut-outs always have cold floors as do rooms over garages.  For the bedroom over a...
  • OVERVIEW: Pyrite

      Pyrite and the damage it can cause to homes is a worrisome and expensive problem in certain areas of Quebec and is affecting property values. So just what is the problem? You tested for pyrite and got an IPPG number?  Read to the bottom, or click here to see the IPPG scale.  Pyrite is a mine...